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<h2>\-</h2>


<h3>In normal text</h3>


<p>The <tt>\-</tt> command tells LaTeX that it may hyphenate

    the word at that point. LaTeX is very good at hyphenating,

    and it will usually find all correct hyphenation points.

    The <tt>\-</tt> command is used for the exceptional cases.</p>


<h3>In the <a href="ltx-58.html">tabbing</a> environment</h3>


<p>The <tt>\-</tt> command moves the left margin of the next and

    all the following commands one tab stop to the left.</p>


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    See also <a href="ltx-27.html">Environments</a>,

    <a href="ltx-58.html">tabbing</a>,

    <a href="ltx-99.html">Line and Page Breaking</a><br>

    See also <tt><a href="ltx-244.html">\hyphenation</a></tt><br>

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